CVE-2007-1244

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the AdminPanel in WordPress 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to perform privileged actions as administrators, as demonstrated using the delete action in wp-admin/post.php. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and steal cookies via the post parameter.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.1.1

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-02/0583.html
http://osvdb.org/33787
http://osvdb.org/33788
http://secunia.com/advisories/24566
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-23.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461351/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22735
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32703
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-02/0583.html
http://osvdb.org/33787
http://osvdb.org/33788
http://secunia.com/advisories/24566

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